President Biden Jumpstarts Cancer Moonshot Initiative With Goal of Halving Death Rate

The White House announced Wednesday that it is reigniting the Cancer Moonshot initiative launched and spearheaded by President Joe Biden during his tenure as Vice President under Barack Obama.

The renewed effort is tasked with halving the cancer death rate over the next 25 years, while improving the lives of cancer patients and survivors. Citing recent progress in cancer therapeutics and diagnostics, as well as public health lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic response, the White House said that it’s now possible to set these ambitious goals.

The National Cancer Institute will organize efforts among its bodies to offer new screening access points and will lead federal agencies in work to expedite research and development of multicancer detection tests: a growing group of genomic and epigenomic technologies that have emerged in recent years.

Source: https://www.360dx.com/cancer/president-biden-jumpstarts-cancer-moonshot-initiative-goal-halving-death-rate#.YfqvhJrMKUk